Grants database

Youth Access is the membership organisation for a national network of Youth Information, Advice and Counselling Services (YIACS). They champion young people’s right to access local, high quality, evidence-informed advice, counselling and support services. This grant provides strategic consultancy support which will allow Youth Access to carry out stakeholder consultation, produce a draft theory of change and develop an aligned high-level evaluation framework.

The Platform Project is a community interest company in Swindon that supports young people who are disengaged (or at risk of becoming disengaged) from education, training and employment. The organisation helps participants to develop confidence and employability skills through a range of different enterprise activities. This grant supports the senior team to develop the Platform Project’s various programmes so that they can be shared more widely with external providers, in response to growing demand. This work will enable the organisation to reach greater numbers of young people

StopWatch works to promote effective, accountable and fair policing. They inform the public about the use of stop and search, develop and share research, organise awareness raising events and provide legal support challenging stop and search. Their work includes legal and policy analysis, media coverage and commentary, political advocacy, litigation, submissions to national and international organisations and community organising. This grant supports StopWatch to employ a young person as a Youth Voice and Participation Lead to assist with the expansion of their youth and community engagement work.

Stop Abuse for Everyone (SAFE) is based in Devon. SAFE supports children, young people, and parents affected by domestic abuse and violence. The organisation offers individual counselling, therapeutic groups, children and families work, and local training and awareness-raising with professionals. This grant supports SAFE to train and support young people to safely share their stories and become peer mentors, contributing to their own and wider sustainable positive outcomes.

Little Hearts Matter provides support when a child is diagnosed with a single ventricle heart condition (SVHD) – essentially half a working heart. This grant supports the charity’s youth programme to strengthen their growing community of heart peers and via its Youth Council, inform clinical research, and improve practice and resources. This will help young members to better understand their condition, reduce isolation and enable them to live more independently.

First Star aims to improve the lives of looked-after young people by partnering with schools, social services, carers, universities and local authorities to ensure young people have the academic, life skills, and support needed to successfully transition to higher education and adulthood. This grant supports the establishment of a First Star programme at the University of Winchester. The programme will provide a cohort of 30 Year 9 looked-after children with monthly sessions and annual summer schools over four years. Through this work the cohort will be supported to build on their strengths, raise their aspirations and fulfil their potential.

Fully Focused use film as a powerful tool for change; to challenge perceptions, raise awareness, progress lives and unite communities. This smaller grant through the Youth Strategic Investment Fund will focus on increasing capacity to enable organisational and strategic planning and development.

Gloucestershire Young Carers’ vision is that all young carers enjoy their childhood and experience a positive transition to adulthood, with a mission to support and enable young carers to build on their strengths and achieve their aspirations. Funding will support organisational development and growth plans.

Football Beyond Borders (FBB) supports young people who are passionate about football but disengaged in school, in order to help them finish school with the skills and grades to make a successful transition into adulthood. Funding will support FBB’s ambition to be the leading specialist provider for disengaged young people in the UK. In doing so, they hope to become an example for the charity sector in how to scale up a representative, relational and developmental working culture.

Empire Fighting Chance’s vision is that all young people can harness their talents to flourish in a challenging world. Core funding will support organisational development and growth plans, and to scale work to help young people to realise their potential through a combination of non-contact boxing and intensive personal support.

CLC believes in a society where all children and young people can participate, are valued, their rights are respected and guaranteed without discrimination, and every child can achieve their full potential. Funding will support organisational development and growth plans.

Synroplang for Social Transformation (SST) is a charity working in education and literacy, vocational training, women’s development and empowerment. Through this project SST will provide education to children in rural traditional Khasi villages through three parallel programmes: evening learning sessions, monthly residential learning camps, and day-schools to prepare children for Open Basic Examinations. They will also deliver Class X, a project to prepare children in five examination subjects: English, Maths, Science, Computing and Social Science. The project uses a pedagogic innovation called CCC (content-context-concept) and maintains continuity of learning between home and school.